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[strumpet]

For me it has to be constipation in the long drops. I think I was in there for an hour, pure stinking straining hell.

[Joshuwarr]

Mine would be last year on the Thursday. During Metronomy at the Queens Head I suddenly had excruciating stomach pains and also felt sick. I had drank 4 or 5 Brothers so I was rather wobbly also. However, once I made my way to the toilets next to the tent I had a vomit and all was well

[TimmyP's Mobile Disco]

In 2002 I had a dodgy sausage and spent 2 very hot days either lying in my tent trying to stop my internal organs exploding or in the long drops trying to stop them falling out of my arse.  Eventually dragged myself to the medical place, they gave me an injection and all was well again.

[18Alex18]

Last year I'd just had my knee reconstructed and after a couple of hours of walking around it had swelled up and became very painful. It remained like this for the remainder of the festival, with very sore swelling.

My cartilage was weak, so I was told I couldn't squat down, which made moving around the tent very difficult.

By sunday I could barely stand up - I sat down all day, and decided that I wouldn't return to Glastonbury just because of the sheer pain I was in. 2 weeks later I was checking out the date for 2010 tickets.

[18Alex18]

TimmyP's Mobile Disco, on Apr 22 2010, 12:27 AM, said:

In 2002 I had a dodgy sausage and spent 2 very hot days either lying in my tent trying to stop my internal organs exploding or in the long drops trying to stop them falling out of my arse.  Eventually dragged myself to the medical place, they gave me an injection and all was well again.

I thought you were talking about your penis  

[mandypants]

TimmyP's Mobile Disco, on Apr 22 2010, 12:27 AM, said:

In 2002 I had a dodgy sausage and spent 2 very hot days either lying in my tent trying to stop my internal organs exploding or in the long drops trying to stop them falling out of my arse.  Eventually dragged myself to the medical place, they gave me an injection and all was well again.

Was it an I (heart) Sausage?  

Mine was probably having a hypo and feeling quite ill.  Fortunately I got to the welfare tent near Croissant Neuf, where they force fed me jam on toast until I felt better.  Great people there

[MrZigster]

Last year, not being able to walk properly after operation the previous week and security not letting me take short cuts.

2005, waking up on the Friday morning to thunder, lightning and a torrential river that had sprung up next to our tent. Another metre or two to the west and we'd have been doomed. So much luckier than others that year of course.

2006, I think, having to visit on site dentist. It wasn't the dentistry, it was the 2 hours of festy time I wasted waiting for the dentist.

Accidentelly catching a James Blunt set.

Edited by MrZigster, 21 April 2010 - 11:38 PM.

[Ashaz42]

TimmyP's Mobile Disco, on Apr 21 2010, 11:27 PM, said:

In 2002 I had a dodgy sausage and spent 2 very hot days either lying in my tent trying to stop my internal organs exploding or in the long drops trying to stop them falling out of my arse.  Eventually dragged myself to the medical place, they gave me an injection and all was well again.

Teehee. Sorry, I read that in a completely innappropriate way  

Also, on topic: Coming back to my tent at 5am on monday morning to find it flooded. Luckily, all my valuables were in the lockups. Just had some very soggy clothes.

[Joshuwarr]

MrZigster, on Apr 22 2010, 12:36 AM, said:

Last year, not being able to walk properly after operation the previous week and security not letting me take short cuts.

2005, waking up on the Friday morning to thunder, lightning and a torrential river that had sprung up next to our tent. Another metre or two to the west and we'd have been doomed. So much luckier than others that year of course.

2006, I think, having to visit on site dentist. It wasn't the dentistry, it was the 2 hours of festy time I wasted waiting for the dentist.

Accidentelly catching a James Blunt set.

There wasnt a festival in 2006  

[mkgirl1981]

last year was my first time and the only bad bit was being stuck in a traffic jam for 10 hours on my own in the car

[MrZigster]

Joshuwarr, on Apr 22 2010, 12:40 AM, said:

There wasnt a festival in 2006  

Some other year then   The one after 2005. Checking the setlists it was deffo 2007. I went to see  Steve Hillage at the Croissant Neuf Tent later, and met one person with toothache, who introduced me to another person with toothache, who knew someone else with toothache, etc. I was quite quickly surrounded by people who wanted to know where the dentist was. So one bad moment at least led to an amusing anecdote.

I still have the box for the antibiotics they gave me somewhere with Glastonbury Festivals Pharmacy as the address on it.

Edit. Oh yeah, and the walk from said dentists to said pharmacy. Another good hour and a half of wasted festy time.

Edited by MrZigster, 21 April 2010 - 11:58 PM.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

MrZigster, on Apr 22 2010, 12:36 AM, said:

Last year, not being able to walk properly after operation the previous week and security not letting me take short cuts.

2005, waking up on the Friday morning to thunder, lightning and a torrential river that had sprung up next to our tent. Another metre or two to the west and we'd have been doomed. So much luckier than others that year of course.

2006, I think, having to visit on site dentist. It wasn't the dentistry, it was the 2 hours of festy time I wasted waiting for the dentist.

Accidentelly catching a James Blunt set.

It's a bastard when you can't walk properly.

2005 I had a hell of a time. I was having real difficulty walking as my foot was swollen. I went to the med centre and they where useless in all honesty. After seeing a "doctor" and having a needle stuck into the swelling. They gave me some meds that cost me a fortune and they just did not work. (about 7 quid an item I think. Private prescription. Turned out one was just Ibuprofen). I then went back. Now when I say went back, the swelling was that bad that it was painful to even cover my foot, never mind getting a shoe or sock on. From PGC to the centre at the Farm took me over 4 hours to walk!!

So gets back there and then I was whisked to hospital. So I ends up in Bristol for some reason. I was seen in the A&E and within 10 minutes a nurse brought some meds as I had "gout". The doctor was incredulous that it had not been picked up, and queried why I had been given two types of antibiotic as well as Ibuprofen, when it was obvious I needed far stronger pain relief. All I needed was a prescription anti inflammatory. So I am left in Bristol and has to get a taxi back.

There were some real perils after I got back to the festival. I saw my GP about it when I arrived home and he was absolutely horrified over my treatment. He did say incompetence. Now if it been say a first aid point at a festival I would have no problem. But they put out that they are a "Field Hospital", and it was a doctor that I saw. We were unable to get any notes from them either.

It may sound petty but if anyone has suffered acute pain through a severe gout attack, without proper pain relief it is hell on earth, and thats if you are laid up at home, never mind the foot slog up to the med centre twice

[grumpyhack]

My only bad memories are the years when there was no Glasto (fallows etc) and the years when I almost didn't get a ticket and just scraped in on the resale.
One year my daughter broke her foot about six weeks before and went with it in plaster cast wrapped round by carrier bags and limping around on crutches.  Needless to say the carrier bags didn't keep the water out and the plaster turned into a soggy mess.
In the end she cut it off (the plaster cast not her foot) and managed to survive.

[Kyelo]

My first Glastonbury me and my x were going through a rough patch, she was with her friends myself with mine. Anyway I met up with them and spent all day with them, had a great time. We were then walking past the Other Stage with me at the head of the pack, I turned around to see her fully embraced kissing a guy.

I just headed in the opposite direction and fell down in a heap. Ironically even though I was surrounded by thousands of people I have never felt so alone sad times lol

Alas they'll be none of that this year, single

[18Alex18]

BenchBuddah, on Apr 22 2010, 03:48 AM, said:

My first Glastonbury me and my x were going through a rough patch, she was with her friends myself with mine. Anyway I met up with them and spent all day with them, had a great time. We were then walking past the Other Stage with me at the head of the pack, I turned around to see her fully embraced kissing a guy.

I just headed in the opposite direction and fell down in a heap. Ironically even though I was surrounded by thousands of people I have never felt so alone sad times lol

Alas they'll be none of that this year, single

That's an absolute shocker!

[Langdale Wolf]

Nothing particularly awful has happened to me luckily, but some of the c**ts who were present in 2000 disgusted me.

I saw people jumping onto tents, setting fire to tents, pissing anywhere they felt like it, setting plastic alight and throwing it across the campsite, and I even saw one bloke accidentally knock into this moron who turned around and punched him full on in the nose.  Blood everywhere.  Luckily, there were a couple of policemen close by who saw it and dragged him away, but it was sad to see how much scum were on site that year.  And it was my first.

That's why I think the festival is so, so much better since the superfence went up.  You'll always get the odd w**ker here and there, but nothing compared to 2000.  It was frightening.

Oh yeah - and some twat spiked my drink on the Thursday evening in 2008, meaning I lost all Thursday night and most of Friday day time feeling like absolute death.  Fun.  Didn't ruin the festival though.  

[disasterplan]

18Alex18, on Apr 22 2010, 12:27 AM, said:

Last year I'd just had my knee reconstructed and after a couple of hours of walking around it had swelled up and became very painful. It remained like this for the remainder of the festival, with very sore swelling.

My cartilage was weak, so I was told I couldn't squat down, which made moving around the tent very difficult.

By sunday I could barely stand up - I sat down all day, and decided that I wouldn't return to Glastonbury just because of the sheer pain I was in. 2 weeks later I was checking out the date for 2010 tickets.

So the mystery footballer on efests is LEDLEY KING!

[Langdale Wolf]

disasterplan, on Apr 22 2010, 09:47 AM, said:

So the mystery footballer on efests is LEDLEY KING!

[Derby_Dave]

strumpet, on Apr 21 2010, 11:19 PM, said:

For me it has to be constipation in the long drops. I think I was in there for an hour, pure stinking straining hell.

Waking up on the Thursday in '93 to find my wallet had been lifted with ALL my money, cards and weed!!

Bastards!!!

[robthedude]

Monday Mornings,